Exploring What's Outside The Box
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By now, you may have seen the buzz about The Wattys shortlist around Twitter and elsewhere. People all over the place are jumping up and down after finding out they’re on the Wattys 2018 shortlist. I’m one of those people. For those that don’t hang around Wattpad every day, what does that mean? What the […]
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Throughout my years, I’ve experienced gaming in a variety of forms, from the good old C64 and Amiga platforms to various iterations of the PlayStation platform and most recently, PC gaming on both Windows and Ubuntu. You see, I’ve been an Ubuntu user since version 7.04, or maybe 7.10. I can’t remember anymore. Either way, […]
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One of the best aspects of Wattpad is the reader feedback. It really is. As a writer, it helps me see what you like, what you don’t like and that it turns helps me see what can be improved and what needs to go in the trash. Yet, comments can also be a bit frustrating. For feedback to make sense, it has to be useful. You have to be able to make sense of what your readers are telling you, right?
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Evening had descended on the village. Stars twinkled in the cloudless night and the bright light of the full moon cast a pale white veil over the cottages. A cool breeze drifted down from the mountains, the trees swaying in harmony as they sang the unintelligible lullabies of the night. In the distance low, dark […]
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Summer is finally here and with it, a packed updated to the Online Writing Log. Although not everything is visible or available within the app itself yet, it’ll be soon! Since the last update, I’ve been pretty busy with new features, updates and fixes. Here’s a brief list of what’s new. A new initial setup […]
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Trevyr sat on the bed in his cabin, his eyes on the monitor that hung on the wall across from him. Sweat trickled down his forehead in the abnormally warm and muggy cabin. The space station, once a barely visible pinprick on the screen, had grown in size to the point where he could make […]
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For the last year or so, I’ve been working on a sci-fi adventure on Wattpad (and other platforms) called The Descent. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have seen at least a tweet a week about new chapters, read counts and so on. What started as a short story back in early 2017 has grown […]
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If you’ve been following my posts in the past, you know that most of what I post relates to writing, reading or fiction in one way or another. However, every now and then I stumble upon something that just makes me pause and look a little closer. This time it’s actually not an app specifically […]
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March has arrived and honestly, I can hardly believe we already have two months in the rearview mirror. The last couple of months have been more productive than I anticipated. January had my highest word count in six months and although February didn’t fare as well as I had hoped, I still did pretty good. […]
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When I first saw the title to The Making of Gabriel Davenport and the cover image of what appears to be an injured bird, I couldn’t help but wonder what it all meant. What does “making of” mean? What’s the deal with the bird? Is it just injured or is it dead? Maybe something completely different […]
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